{"id":12393,"date":"2009-09-16T10:52:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T10:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/16\/an-inappropriate-use-of-inappropriate\/"},"modified":"2009-09-16T10:52:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T10:52:46","slug":"an-inappropriate-use-of-inappropriate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/16\/an-inappropriate-use-of-inappropriate\/","title":{"rendered":"An Inappropriate Use of &#8216;Inappropriate&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Too many people nowadays are afraid to use no-nonsense words like \u2018wrong,\u2019 \u2018immoral,\u2019 and the like. So they employ \u2018inappropriate\u2019: \u2018Clinton\u2019s behavior in the Oval Office with Monica Lewinsky was inappropriate.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Sorry, but that is an inappropriate use of \u2018inappropriate.\u2019 Mr. Clinton\u2019s behavior with his subordinate was morally wrong. The following sentence illustrates an appropriate use: \u2018It would have been inappropriate of Mr. Clinton had he attended the black tie affair dressed in a swimsuit.\u2019<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too many people nowadays are afraid to use no-nonsense words like \u2018wrong,\u2019 \u2018immoral,\u2019 and the like. So they employ \u2018inappropriate\u2019: \u2018Clinton\u2019s behavior in the Oval Office with Monica Lewinsky was inappropriate.\u2019 Sorry, but that is an inappropriate use of \u2018inappropriate.\u2019 Mr. Clinton\u2019s behavior with his subordinate was morally wrong. The following sentence illustrates an appropriate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/16\/an-inappropriate-use-of-inappropriate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Inappropriate Use of &#8216;Inappropriate&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}